The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement the Common Core and aligned assessments through professional learning. The major professional development efforts around the Common Core were examined in order to understand the overall efforts of each state. An exhaustive list of…

The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement their states' new college- and career-readiness standards and aligned assessments, through professional learning. SREB researchers examined each state's major professional development efforts around its new standards in order to…

To maintain their commitment to a site, teachers need truly meaningful work. Teacher leadership drives the work of the Writing Project. The narratives in this collection, written by three veteran teacher-consultants, demonstrate many ways in which teacher leadership builds the capacity of any National Writing Project (NWP) site to do its work.…

From 2008 to 2010, project-based learning (PBL) was a major focus of the Teacher Leadership Institute (TLI), undertaken by the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE), as a method for teaching 21st century skills. Beginning in January 2011, a summative evaluation was conducted to investigate the effect of PBL implementation on teachers'…

This handbook describes the 1969-70 Region II West Virginia New Careers in Education Program which includes three training and development components: (1) a 4-week summer preservice institute for teachers (K-12) and teacher aides and a 1-week institute for principals; (2) weekly inservice seminars for teachers and aides, on-the-job training for…

The participants included both in-service teachers and student teachers at the elementary level who were selected partially on the basis of their recognition of problems relative to the disadvantaged. This was a bi-racial institute, however, representation from wide geographical areas was one of the selection criteria. It was held at West Virginia…

In order to prepare professionals to conduct inservice training for the teaching of vocational education to the handicapped in West Virginia, a training institute was held in the summer of 1976. (PHR)

This evaluation of the Institute on Interethnic Aspects of Public School Education in West Virginia consisted of two district procedures. The first was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in terms of the change occurring in the participants as perceived by the participants themselves. This was done by a pre- and post-program…

The Institute was held during the summer of 1968 at the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College to explore problems and opportunities in integrated, interethnic education. The participants were 54 school board members, school superintendents, and other administrators representing more than half of the county school systems of West Virginia.…

The Triple T final report documents describe the program from 1969 to 1971. One of the basic objectives of the project was to create statewide dialogue about problems in the area of social studies instruction, especially among Appalachian students, and about ways that social studies teachers and their teachers are trained. Three outcomes of the…

Presented by the West Virginia Board of Regents with assistance from state colleges and universities is a state plan for special education teacher preparation. The project objectives include a needs analysis for special education, the development of innovative plans for teacher training, the determination of alternative training programs, and the…

Volume 2 presents the background and methodology of four state institute projects (Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, West Virginia) designed to expand public library services to disadvantaged adults, and also provides a description of the national, state, and local dissemination activities of the seven library/Adult Basic Education demonstration…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 3-year federally supported project to improve special education and related services for children with deaf-blindness in West Virginia. The project served 94 children with deaf-blindness, their families, and service providers throughout the state. Activities and achievements are…

These proceedings contain eight papers presented at the meeting, each followed by a critique. Major areas studied are home schooling, incorporating agriscience and biotechnology in agricultural education, part-time employment by agricultural education teachers, 4-H, attitudes of Agricultural Science Institute participants, client satisfaction, and…